Perfunctory - done as a duty or routine but without much care or interest

Enamoured - feeling great fondness or love

Hegemony - leadership, particularly by one country

Pernicious - very harmful or destructive

Nescient - ignorant

Antipathy - hatred

Rectitude - moral goodness, correctness of behaviour or procedure

Craven - cowardly

Anodyne - anything that relives pain or distress

Vacillate - waver, keep changing one’s mind

Exculpate - free from blame

Ethereal - light and delicate, particularly in appearance

Arch - consciously or affectedly playful eg. ‘an arch smile…’

Inane - silly, lacking sense

Eponym - a word or name derived from the name of a person, eponymous

Vituperate - use abusive language, vituperative

Exigent - pressing, demanding

Lexical - of, or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language

Parenthesis - a word or phrase inserted as an explanation or after thought

Ossify - to cease developing, become inflexible

Bien-pensant - right thinking, orthodox (French)

Equanimity - calmness, composure

Imperious - arrogant

Imponderable - impossible or very difficult to assess or estimate

Patrician - comes from a family of high social rank, or looks or behaves as though they do

Accretion - a layer of material which gradually forms on top of something

Unctuous - someone who pretends to be full of praise, kindness, or interest, but is obviously insincere

Exiguous -very small

Lapidary - of or relating to the engraving, cutting, polishing of stones and gems , eg ‘ he had lapidary features’.

Perspicacity - having a ready insight into and understanding of things, perspicacious

Perspicuous - an account clearly expressed and easily understood

Sonorous - capable of producing a deep or ringing sound

Concomitant - naturally accompanying or associated

Insouciant - casually unconcerned

Tendentious - calculated to promote a particular cause or point of view

I love poetry and I don't wish to populate this site with too much of it. But I read this recently and can't resist posting it:

Facing you

I am not jealous

If you arrived

With a man on your back,

or a hundred men

hanging in the rigging of your hair,

or a thousand men

sleeping on the soft mound of your belly,

if you were a river

filled with drowned men

met by the furious sea

foaming at its mouth,

by eternal weather -

if you arrived with them all

where I wait for you,

I would not be jealous.

We will always be alone.

We will always be, you and I,

alone on this earth

to begin life.

- Daniel Hardisty

Contact

If you have always wanted to ask me something, now is the time to go for it!JonathanNicholas-Author@virginmedia.com

News Steve Cherry will be attending several locations across the country for book
signing events. Dates and locations to follow.
Nov 2018 - 'Cherry Picking' is now available for pre-order on Amazon and other internet retailers.
Aug 2018 - 'Cherry Picking - Life between the Sticks' has been taken on by traditional publisher The Book Guild and will be released on 28th Feb 2019
June 2018: Jonathan has now completed the manuscript for the new book 'Cherry Picking - Life between the Sticks' working with Steve Cherry, former goalkeeper with Derby County, Walsall, Plymouth
Argyle & Notts County, about his football career. Hopefully released later in 2018/early 2019.
September 2017: 'Active' released under the fiction writing pen name of Dan Hastings.
June 2016: 'Who'd be a Copper?' Shortlisted by Writing Magazine Best Self-Published Book
2016.